Johannes Spreter

Johannes Spreter (also Spräter , Spretter , Latinized Spreterus ) (* before 1490 in Rottweil ; † around 1549 in Trossingen , according to other information † 1543 or † 1547 ) was an Evangelical Lutheran theologian and reformer from Trossingen.

Live and act

He was born before 1490 in a family that belonged to an old Rottweiler patrician family . He went to Latin school with Nikolaus Hummel in Rottweil and studied at Heidelberg University from 1506 to 1508 . In 1520 he was given the parish of Trossingen by the abbot of the Reichenau monastery . In 1522 he was canon of St. Johann in Konstanz and was appointed episcopal sealer. From 1523 he is pastor of St. Stephan in Konstanz.

Initially he was faithful to the Catholic faith, but he was already committed to Reformation ideas from 1525, eight years after Martin Luther posted the famous 95 theses on the castle church in Wittenberg . In 1526 Spreter worked alongside the Konstanz reformers Thomas Blarer and Johannes Zwick and introduced the evangelical sermon in St. Stephan. He married Margarete Maygerin before September 2, 1527. The attempt by the Bishop of Constance to withdraw the parish of St. Stephan from him failed, thanks to the support of the Constance Council. He received parish pledges until 1534. From 1532 to 1535 he appeared as a Reformation preacher in Geislingen, then Ulm, and in Württemberg .

Due to his Reformation activities, the parish of Trossingen is withdrawn from him and the Bishop of Constance summons him to court. The people of Trossingen are loyal to him; with the support of Duke Ulrich , he was able to take over the old Trossingen congregation again in 1534 , where he continued to preach Protestantism (until the end of his life in 1547).

Works

• Form and order, as kept by the priest at Sant Steffan in Constantz and his curates with tufted infuren and the dead, 1526. (lost)
• We report the old Christian mass, night time of the Lord, objectionable, covenant, sacrament of the body and blood of Christ Jesus from our masters, whatever to keep, how, when, where and by whom. Varnier Publishing House, 1532.
• What of appeals to the holy ones, whose worship, worship of images, Christian and pagan rulers, ... to think witches and sorcery, 1540.
• From secular and clerical chiefs, nobility and knights, wars and warriors, two swords, to whom they are to be used, when, where and by whom they are to be used, 70 pages, Verlag Westheimer, 1543.
• Christian construction and would be an explanation of the various articles of faith, and Handel, manner, word, work, do, let, essence of the whole biblical scripture: in the last and ambiguous Zeyt, all Christians comforting u. useful to read ", 1543, 652 pages.
• A brief report on what to hold back from the idolatrous saws and complaints, how they are quite accomplished and that they are a sorcery, also a horror before God the Lord. 1543, 12 pages.
• From the providence, calling, and order of God: item Divine research rebirth d. People, freyen u. eygnen will. 1543, 46 pages.
• From the Christian, vn imagined de-Christian church, whose Haub city guardians, Gwalt vn keys. Westheymer Publishing House, 1543.
• From the fear, calling, and order of God: Item of God forcht, rebirth of man, Freyen and Eygnen's sake. Publisher Bartholomeo Westheymer, 1543.
• From sacred biblical writings and their geyst: like a vass or tool of truth, etc. hold up bitingly, which u. what biblical or apocryphal books are. 1543, 32 pages.
• About races, validity, interest, toes, new breaches and usury of the New and Old Testaments. 1543, 42 pages. ( Digitized in the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Digital Library)

literature

• Gustav Bossert: Johann Spreter von Rottweil . In: Leaves for Württemberg Church History . NF, Volume 15, 1911, pp. 103–125 ( digital copy )
• Siegfried Hermle: Reformation history of Württemberg in portraits . Hänssler, Holzgerlingen 1999, ISBN 3-7751-3416-6
• Personalia Johannes Spreter , in: Helmut Maurer: The St. Stephan monastery in Konstanz (= Germania Sacra; NF 15; The dioceses of the ecclesiastical province of Mainz. The diocese of Konstanz 1). De Gruyter, 1981, ISBN 3-11-086353-7 , p. 290 F. ( digitized version )